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Lambrini Kourkouta, Professor Technological Educational Institute of Thess P.O BOX 141, GR - 574 00 Thessaloniki Macedonia, GR [email protected] Christos Iliadis, RN Private Health Center, Thessaloniki, GR [email protected] Petros Ouzounakis, RN General Hospital of Alexandroupoli, Alexandroupoli GR [email protected] Mrs Panagiota Plati Graduates Department of History and Archaeology University of Ioannina, Ioannina, GR [email protected] Mrs Aikaterini Karioti Graduates Department of Psychology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Macedonia, GR [email protected] Professor Basiliki Vakalopoulou 7th High School of Athens, 7th High School of Athens, Athens, GR [email protected] RESPECT OF MEDICAL CONFIDENTIALITY TO THE HOME CARE ACCORDING TO HIPPOCRATES; OATH Introduction: While home care is a unique care provider, it presents many moral problems, such as keeping the patient's privacy, which the nurses need to know for their successful treatment. Aim: The purpose of this retrospective study is to highlight some important information about keeping thepatient's privacy in home care according to Hippocrates' oath. Review Methods: Extensive review of the recent literature was conducted in electronic database, Medline and via the link of the Greek Association of Academic Libraries (HEAL-Link), using the following key words: home care,medical confidentiality,Hippocrates' oath. Results: A home care nurse should provide services based on his competence. He must respect the dignity and privacy of his patients and the patient's home. .According to Hippocrates' oath, into whatsoever houses he enters, he will enter to help the sick, and he will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm, especially from abusing the bodies of man or woman, bond or free. And whatsoever he shall see or hear in the course of his profession, as well as outside his profession in his intercourse with men, if it be what should not be published abroad, he will never divulge, holding such things to be holy secrets. Conclusions: In home care, nurses are not only confined to the therapeutic rehabilitation of the patient, but are designed to maintain and promote the moral health of the patients. 14 |